Powers/Abilities:
Beyond being an accomplished, if somewhat vain, actor, Mary Arnett
later possessed various powers of a vampire, although her vampiric
transformation left her ghoulish in appearance. She was fast, strong
with fangs and claw-like hands. Like other vampires, she could be
destroyed by sunlight.

History:

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- In early February 1945, the USO organized a show to entertain
American
troops stationed in Bastogne, Belgium, to shore up troop morale.
Prominent entertainer Mary Arnett from the USA was to be one of the
main acts.

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With slight false modesty, Arnett arrived in the camp and received much
attention from the army lads and photographers as Captain America and
Bucky looked on.

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The vampire girl Esme Georges converted Arnett into a ghoulish vampire
during a private walk. Arnett had plans to breed vampire soldiers to
fight Captain America, converting several soldiers into vampires, and
hid the mirrors from her private room.

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chaos caused by the sudden outbreak of vampires amongst the soldiers
prompted Captain America to cancel the USO show so he and Bucky went to
Arnett's room to advise her, and to get her and Terry Foyle to safety.
However, they were confronted by the now vampiric starlet who savagely
attacked Captain America. Bucky joined the fray, shooting through the
walls and windows to allow sunshine in from a new sunrise. As
she burnt and disintegrated from the sun's rays, Bucky fired additional
bullets into her.

Comments:
Created by Ed Brubaker (writer) and Gene Colan (art).

The story was told in the modern
day as a flashback between Bucky Barnes and Nick Fury.

The fates of Arnett and Georges
may well be bound to the somewhat cyclic mass resurrections
and destructions of vampires in the Marvel Universe.

Born in 1932 and died in 1941,
Esme Georges was buried in a Belgian graveyard, an apparent victim of
Nazi officer Helmutt von Schuler (himself converted into a vampire by
Baron Blood). But she did not stay buried and posed as a girl
delivering water to troops stationed around her town. At one point, she
took newly arrived American entertainer Mary Arnett for a walk and
turned her into a vampire. Tracking down the one responsible for the
increased vampire activity, Captain America and Bucky found her grave,
but she was perched in the tree above in her monstrous vampiric form.
She launched herself at the two American heroes, but Bucky's gunfire
apparently destroyed the child vampire.